Meet the world’s animals.

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• Bicolored Antbird Gymnopithys bicolor

  

  This antbird is recorded in Costa Rica's humid lowland forests. Its chestnut back, white underside, and blue-gray skin around the eye stand out; it uses the understory and adjacent secondary growth.

• Hairy-footed Flying Squirrel Belomys pearsonii

  A nocturnal flying squirrel that glides between trees in mountain forests of northeastern India.

• Black-browed Mountain Greenbul Arizelocichla fusciceps

  The Black-browed Mountain Greenbul lives in montane forest in southeastern Africa. Its species account describes dense highland forest and fruit in its diet; a Tanzania photo page records birds in Poroto Ridge forest.

• Blick's Arvicanthis Arvicanthis blicki

  Blick’s grass rat is a rodent specialized for Ethiopia’s high-elevation grasslands. Its skull has a downward-twisted snout region and enlarged eye sockets, and records span 2,750–4,050 m.

• Yellow-collared Chlorophonia Chlorophonia flavirostris

  The Yellow-collared Chlorophonia is a small bird whose male has a green head and yellow eye-ring. It forages in the canopy of humid forest, mainly for small fruits.

• Large Myotis Myotis (Myotis) chinensis

  Large Myotis is a large mouse-eared bat recorded in Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand.

• White-crested Helmetshrike Prionops plumatus

  This social bird has black-and-white plumage, a gray crest, and a yellow eye. It searches for insects in the middle and lower levels of trees.

• Mexican Deer Mouse Peromyscus mexicanus

  The Mexican deer mouse lives in forests of Central America. Its tail has very little hair, and coat color varies by region and season.

• Canary-winged Parakeet Brotogeris versicolurus

  The Canary-winged Parakeet has a pale green body and a white wing band that is conspicuous in flight. It is native to South America and has become feral in parts of North America.

• Gray-headed Flying Squirrel Petaurista caniceps

  This flying squirrel ranges from the eastern Himalaya into southwestern China. Specialist accounts describe a gray head and an unspotted back.

• Yellow Rail Coturnicops noveboracensis

  The Yellow Rail is a small rail that hides among wetland grasses. It probes the ground and vegetation for small animals and seeds; males give faint clicking calls on spring nights.

• Yellow-necked Field Mouse Apodemus flavicollis

  Apodemus flavicollis is described in a British mammal atlas as mainly a woodland mouse. The yellowish band below its neck joins the brown upper fur, and many British records are near ancient woodland.

• Opalton Grasswren Amytornis rowleyi

  The Opalton Grasswren is a grasswren studied around Opalton in central western Queensland. Survey sites include open woodland with spinifex ground cover.

• Caatinga Laucha Calomys expulsus

  The Caatinga Laucha is a vesper mouse from central and northeastern Brazil. It occurs in open grasslands and forest edges in the Cerrado and Caatinga, as well as cultivated fields, and lives on the ground and eats seeds.

• Maguari Stork Ciconia maguari

  The Maguari Stork lives in South American wetlands. It has contrasting black-and-white plumage and searches for prey while walking through shallow water.

• Least Chipmunk Tamias (Neotamias) minimus

  This small chipmunk lives in North America. It has a striped face, an orangish-brown back, and a grayish-white underside. It often uses forest edges and openings.

• Cape Batis Batis capensis

  This small bird differs in its chest and throat markings between the sexes. Pairs search for insects in forests and dense vegetation.

• Common Oenomys Oenomys hypoxanthus

  The common Oenomys has a red nose and a white-to-orange underside. At Mount Kupe in Cameroon it was also caught in a village and fallow land; its coat color and body size vary geographically.

• Band-backed Wren Campylorhynchus zonatus

  The Band-backed Wren lives in forests and forest edges in Central America. Dark bars on the back and tail, black spots on the chest, and a tawny belly help identify it.

• Labrador Collared Lemming Dicrostonyx hudsonius

  This lemming changes coat color with the seasons: white in winter and gray to brown in warmer seasons. It burrows in the tundra of northeastern Canada and eats grasses and shrub buds.

• Cabanis's Bunting Emberiza cabanisi

  Cabanis's Bunting occurs in sub-Saharan Africa. Males have a dark crown, white eyebrow, and yellow underparts.

• Particolored Flying Squirrel Hylopetes alboniger

  This squirrel glides among trees and uses tree hollows. A Phu Quoc Island survey found four animals—an adult female and male and two young males—in one hollow.

• Emin's Shrike Lanius gubernator

  A small African shrike of savanna and shrubland that catches ground-dwelling invertebrates by day.

• Verreaux's White-footed Rat Myomyscus verreauxii

  This mouse lives in South Africa's Western Cape. It has a buff-brown back, pale underside, large naked ears, white feet, and a long scaly tail.